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Today, it is all too common for people to feel unhealthy levels of stress. Stress has many negative effects on the body including high blood pressure, heart attack, abnormal heart rhythms and worsened irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms, among others. Great! Another thing to stress about! Don’t worry. Controlling your stress level can help you […]
Read moreGranite Peaks GI Staff 4/09/2020 Part of the frustration that can come with this sort of change to our normal daily life is sustaining our normal expectations while living and working in an abnormal way. This goes for how we work, how we eat, how we exercise, how we create, sleep and plan. The secret […]
Read moreOVERVIEW Lactose is the sugar found in milk and dairy products such as cheese and yogurt. After eating dairy products that contain this sugar, usually lactase, a digestive enzyme of the small intestine, helps to breakdown this complex sugar into two simple sugars, glucose and galactose. These simple sugars are then absorbed in the small […]
Read moreThanksgiving is just around the corner, which means comfort food and delicious treats. Living with IBD and eating some of these Thanksgiving foods could upset your symptoms, however, we have some yummy solutions. Here are two IBD-friendly Thanksgiving recipes that everyone at the table will surely love! Herb Roasted Turkey Breast Ingredients 1 whole bone-in […]
Read moreYou trust your gastroenterologist to help you make the right decisions regarding medical therapy of your ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. But is everything being done to prevent other diseases associated with your inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? Despite published guidelines, vaccination and preventive screening rates are unacceptably low among patients with IBD. The following is […]
Read moreBy Dr. Christopher Cutler Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract that includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Many women worry about how pregnancy can affect their IBD, and more importantly,how treatment for IBD may affect their baby. However, with appropriate treatment and follow up, most women can have a […]
Read moreBy Peter Loftus View Original Article People suffering from a common but tough-to-treat gut disorder called IBS are discovering a growing set of treatment alternatives. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs in the past year for the disorder, known as irritable bowel syndrome, which involves chronic diarrhea, constipation or both, […]
Read moreOver a million Americans suffer from Inflammatory Bowel Disease every day. Now, a new drug may be available soon to change the entire face of the disease for those who suffer. Second Genome, Inc. is a leader in the development of medicines using the bacteria that already exists in the human body. Each human body […]
Read moreAt Granite Peaks Gastroenterology, we keep up with current literature. We thought our patients would find this article interesting regarding recent research on inflammatory bowel disease.
Read moreBy Andrew Heiner, MD UPDATED: 10/25/2018 “Nobody really knows what causes Crohn’s Disease; the first person to figure that out will probably win the Nobel Prize,” says Granite Peaks Gastroenterologist Andrew Heiner, MD. Dr. Heiner, who diagnoses and treats many patients with Crohn’s each year, is incredibly hopeful that in the next several years, the mystery behind the […]
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